“This’ll give”: Mazursky, Show Me the Magic, 159.
“When you first start”: Weinraub, “Hollywood Reigns as Film Fete Opens.”
“I feel nervous”: Ibid.
“Mayor John Lindsay”: Mazursky to author, June 21, 2011.
the phone rang: Mazursky to author, June 21, 2011.
“It’s nice to be here”: Guy Flatley, “How to Be Very Viva,” New York Times, Nov. 9, 1969, 18.
doubled over with laughter: Colacello, Holy Terror, 5.
Katharine Hepburn: Flatley, “How to Be Very Viva.”
Warhol courted: Bockris, The Life and Death of Andy Warhol, 156.
They also arrested: Vincent Canby, “Warhol’s Red Hot and ‘Blue’ Movie,” New York Times, Aug. 10, 1969, 2.
“cheap date”: Bockris, The Life and Death of Andy Warhol, 154.
Golightly/Woodlawn Cemetery: Woodlawn, The Holly Woodlawn Story, 3.
Holly Woodlawn in Gay: Watson, Factory Made, 339.
“Intrigued by my boldness”: Woodlawn, The Holly Woodlawn Story, 5.
“Hi, Holly”: Ibid, 132.
“If you were wearing”: Candy Darling documentary, 2009.
“Morrissey was very”: Dallesandro to author, Sept. 29, 2012.
“Three days of love”: Ferguson, Little Joe, Superstar, 89.
“Stop the Method”: Ibid., 97.
“so humiliated”/Sylvia Miles: Woodlawn, The Holly Woodlawn Story, 144.
“forty commercials”: Steven Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” Vanity Fair, April 2001, 422.
“I am convinced”: Brown, Let Me Entertain You, 129.
“Oh, just leave”: Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies.”
“well-thumbed page”: Ibid.
“lacked that touch: Ibid., 420.
“Perhaps because of”: Mark Goodman, “Myra/Raquel,” Time, Nov. 28, 1969, 86.
Nero’s mother: “Fellini’s Faces,” After Dark, March 1969, 14.
“I never could”/“too choice”: Chandler, She Always Knew How, 243.
stars ranging from: Sandra Shevey, “I Think It’s Just Beginning,” After Dark, Feb. 1969, 53.
“I was anointed”: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second documentary, 2003.
“marvelously artificial”: Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” 422.
“old hack”: Rex Reed, “Myra Goes Hollywood,” Playboy, August 1970, 80.
“I was supposed: Ibid.
“epicene Rex Reed”: Mark Goodman, “Myra/Raquel,” Time, Nov. 28, 1969, 88.
David Brown broke out: Steven Daly; “Swinging into the Seventies,” Vanity Fair, 425; also, Brown, Let Me Entertain You, 129.
“boys’ night out”: Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” 426.
“She’s a sweet”: Ibid., 424.
“Old Raccoon”: Reed, “Myra Goes Hollywood,” 80.
“She looks like”: “Mae and Myra,” VLife, Nov. 2003, 47.
“Darling, don’t you”: Daly, “Swinging in the Seventies,” 424.
“wild frenzy dance”: Calvin Trillin, “Through the Muck with Myra,” Life, March 6, 1970, 52.
One day, Head asked: Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” 425.
“Oh, this must be”: Reed, “Myra Goes Hollywood,” 155.
“The set was closed”: Ibid., 80.
“Do you masturbate”: Ibid., 155.
“We just disagree”/Tom O’Horgan: Joe Broady, “Sarne Stays as ‘Myra’ Director,” Variety, Oct. 1, 1969, 7.
“today picture”/“Bullshit”: Reed, “Myra Goes Hollywood,” 155.
I Am Curious account/quotes: Associated Press; also, “Jackie Puts Judo Hold on Newsman,” Temple of Schlock, Feb. 1, 2009.
“Everyone has quit”: Joyce Haber, “Shell Shock on the ‘Myra’ Set,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 19, 1969.
scent of burning marijuana: Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” 425.
“teenage soap opera”: Bob Thomas, “Dolls Sequel for Meyer,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Sept. 29, 1969.
“The previous film”: Ibid.
“I’ve considered full”: Ebert, Life Itself, 22.
“20th is letting”: Nat Freedland, “Russ Meyer Beyond Nudies,” Entertainment World, Jan. 30, 1970, 11.
“The rushes look”: Ibid., 13.
Altamont/Loud/Hoffman: Hoffman to author; Nov. 21, 2011.
Mick Jagger, surrounded: Gimme Shelter documentary, 1970.
“I have bad news”: Bogarde, Snakes & Ladders, 297.
“demonic, insane”: Helmut Berger profile, Internet Movie Database.
“Visconti wondered”: Bogarde, Snakes & Ladders, 298.
“We were the hit”: Ibid., 305.
Chapter Nine: Winter 1970, Outrage
“Doors started opening”: Walker, Hollywood UK, 419.
censors excised: Walker, Hollywood UK, 422.
“brilliantly shot”: Trevelyan, What the Censor Saw, 163.
in his coat pocket: Walker, Hollywood UK, 411.
“I discovered that”: Libin, “Don Cammell,” 10.
Paramount Pictures unveiled: Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture, 171.
Sarne’s idea/young Shirley Temple: Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” 426; also, Brown, Let Me Entertain You, 129.
Midnight Cowboy R-rating: Phillips, John Schlesinger, 129.
“No way”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“I am somewhat”: Ronnie Cowan, “Helmut Berger Outspoken Thespian,” Citizen News, July 27, 1970, 19.
Chapter Ten: Spring 1970, Kisses
“I had a very intense”: Buruma, Conversations with John Schlesinger, 68.
“I don’t suppose”: Buruma, Conversations with John Schlesinger, 117.
Keller/Schlesinger/Bannen exchange: Daimon Lawrence, “Hiram Keller,” Andy Warhol’s Interview, Vol. IV, No. 10, 1974, 31.
“Ian wasn’t free”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
phoned her client/“I’m not a queer”: Faulkner, Peter Finch, 250.
“Dear John”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“That’s exactly”: Dundy, Finch, Bloody Finch, 211.
“we became like”: Phillips, John Schlesinger, 309.
“I didn’t think”: Guy Flatley, “I Suppose Some People Will Be Shocked,” New York Times, Oct. 3, 1971, 12.
“The kiss!”: Dundy, Finch, Bloody Finch, 310.
“John, is this really”: Ibid.
“I did it for England”: Flatley, “I Suppose Some People Will Be Shocked,” 12.
“You’re the hot”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“To ask them”: Flatley, “I Suppose Some People Will Be Shocked,” 12.
“We screamed”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“Oh, it’s a wonderful”: Buruma, Conversations with John Schlesinger, 118.
“We’d filled the little theater”: Ibid., 116.
Chapter Eleven: Summer 1970, Retreat
“two men grabbed”: Steven Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” Vanity Fair, April 2001, 426.
Crowley introduced himself: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“The gay boys?”: Joseph Modzelewski, “1st Lady of Sex Speaks Out,” Daily News, June 25, 1970, 4.
Brown recalled the scene: Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” 427; also, Brown, Let Me Entertain You, 129.
“Nobody can understand”: Baxter, Stanley Kubrick, 242.
“There’s no point: Ibid.
“definitive blowjob”: Gerber, Trippin’ with Terry Southern, 136.
“pornography without”/refused all ads: Southern, The Candy Men, 329.
“the great Stanley K”: Gerber, Trippin’ with Terry Southern, 136.
“The book itself”: Southern, The Candy Men, 329.
“A janitor”: Baadasssss! DVD, special features.
“Of all the ways”: “Power to the Peeples,” Time, Aug. 16, 1971, 47.
“Some of the actresses”/“clap”: Baadasssss! DVD, special features.
“Dad, is this”: Van Peebles to author, Aug. 20, 2012.
“I did not altogether”: Baxter, Stanley Kubrick, 247.
“It was the most painful”: LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick, 336.
Burgess had been here before: Ibid. 337.
“It’s as though”: Hell on Earth documentary, 2002.
“That’s not the way”: Lanza, Phallic Frenzy, 109.
“Look, I’ve got some bad”: Baxter, An Appalling Talent, 193.
“Because we gave creative”: Picker to author, Aug. 29, 2011.
“I landed on my ass”: Baxter, An Appalling Talent, 193.
“Mr. Kubrick has”: Gerber, Trippin’ with Terry Southern, 55.
“I feared, justly”: Burgess, You’ve Had Your Time, 217.
“Nothing was a difficult”: Nichols to author; June 13, 2011.
“From the moment”: Bergen, Knock Wood, 222.
Nichols had her do the scene: Crane and Fryer, Jack Nicholson, 80, 84; also, Ann-Margret, Ann-Margret, 205.
to help Nicholson: McGilligan, Jack’s Life, 220, 224.
“It was this wild”: Parker, Warren Beatty, 399.
“Now, that’s what”: McGilligan, Jack’s Life, 223.
“the pro”: McDouglas, Five Easy Decades, 128.
“I was one of the first”: “Playboy Interview: Jack Nicholson,” Playboy, April 1972, 72.
“I appeared puffier”: Ann Margret, Ann-Margret, 209.
“depressive stupor”: Ibid., 210.
Nichols on nude scenes: Carnal Knowledge symposium, Walter Reade Theater, NYC, June 12, 2011.
Nichols never stopped working: Feiffer, Backing into Forward, 402.
He recalled a conversation: Feiffer to author, Dec. 7, 2010.
Chapter Twelve: Autumn 1970, Arrests
“vice that won’t”: “Playboy Interview: Gore Vidal,” Playboy, June 1969, 94.
“I felt like Elizabeth”: Guy Flatley, “He Enjoys Being a Girl,” New York Times, Nov. 15, 1970, 15.
apartment of Mme. Chardonet: Woodlawn, The Holly Woodlawn Story, 11.
“lift your dress”/“Finally, the police”: Flatley, “He Enjoys Being a Girl,” 2.
“Holly only worked”: Woodlawn, The Holly Woodlawn Story, 17.
Lance approached her: Stein, Edie, 413–14; also Lance Loud to author.
“If anyone had said”: Feiffer to author, Dec. 7, 2010.
“it is about Mahler”: Bogarde, Snakes & Ladders, 298.
“All the details”: Mann, Unwritten Memories, 152.
the executives at Warners: Bogarde, Snakes & Ladders, 305.
Warsaw, Oslo, Helsinki: Bogarde, An Orderly Man, 75.
“girlfriend”/Berenson: Ronnie Cowan, “Helmut Berger Outspoken Thespian,” Citizen News, July 27, 1970, 19.
“You don’t think”: Amy Collins, “The Lure of Visconti,” Vanity Fair, December 2001, 308.
“healthy appetite”: Bogarde, An Orderly Man, 76.
“Hell, man, now”: Ibid., 79.
“Of course it’s important,” Lanza, Phallic Frenzy, 109.
Redgrave, Paris, Claire, Sutton, Fyles, Gilbert, Vernon, Baird quotes: Hell on Earth documentary, 2002.
“comfortable thing to do”: Hell on Earth (documentary), 2002.
“These lessons often”: Russell, Altered States, 105.
“shitty”: “Playboy Interview: Sam Peckinpah,” Playboy, August 1972, 79.
“nice Jewish girl”: Simmons, Peckinpah, 124.
He even wrote: Fine, Bloody Sam, 193-94.
“religious reasons”: Simmons, Peckinpah, 129.
“What appealed to me”: Ibid., 125.
“Lolita-ish girl”: Ibid., 126.
“I do think of Sam”: Dan Yergin, “Peckinpah’s Progress,” New York Times Magazine, Oct. 31, 1971, 16.
“He was plastered”: Hoffman to author, Oct. 19, 2012.
“I’m like a good whore”: Ibid.
“Several weeks ago”: The American Presidency Project online.
Chapter Thirteen: 1971, Fatigue
“I shot that stag”: Dan Yergin, “Peckinpah’s Progress,” New York Times Magazine, Oct. 31, 1971, 16.
“Like a princess”: Fine, Bloody Sam, 200–1.
Word of their talk: Ibid., 201–2.
“There were only two”: Van Peebles to author, Aug. 20, 2012.
“the [black] community comes”: Baadasssss! DVD, special features.
“When we arrived”: How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company documentary, 2004.
“Not only is he baptized”: Newton, To Die for the People, 118.
“Sweetback grew into”: Ibid., 122.
“Van Peebles pictures”: “Black Workshop Charges Racial Sabotage in ‘Sweet’,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 21, 1971, 22.
“Hell, my father”: Baadasssss! DVD, special features.
“I stood a steroetype”: How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company documentary, 2004.
“cultural genocide”: ACLU press release, March 22, 1971.
“They don’t have”: “Civil Liberties Union,” Hollywood Reporter, March 24, 1971.
John Erlichman and Bob Haldeman were sitting: Nixon tapes, May 3, 1971; YouTube.
“It’s gonna go”: “Playboy Interview: Norman Lear,” Playboy, March 1973, 62.
“We’re going to be getting”: “Playboy Interview: Carroll O’Connor,” Playboy, Jan. 1973, 74.
“fifty stations”: “Family Fun,” Newsweek, March 15, 1971, 68.
contract guarantee him: “Playboy Interview: Carroll O’Connor,” 70.
Visconti/Warners: Bogarde, An Orderly Man, 73.
“great scandal”: Ibid., 74.
“Queen of England”: Ibid., 80.
“ticket prices”: Adair, The Real Tadzio, 25.
“would have been detrimental”: Ibid., 27.
Xaviera Hollander account: Hollander to author; May 30, 2012; also, Hollander, The Happy Hooker, 12, 159, 162, 114, 117, 195, 284, 11.
“I’d never negotiated”: The Happy Hooker: Portrait of a Sexual Revolutionary documentary, 2010.
“she was blatant”/“Bob Abel wanted”/“It brought sex”: Dunleavy to author, May 31, 2012.
Oscar campaign to get: Woodlawn to author; May 2, 2011.
“If you watch”: Ferguson, Little Joe, Superstar, 98.
He even got Ben Gazzarra: Woodlawn, The Holly Woodlawn Story, 159.
“I’ve made my statement”: Fine, Bloody Sam, 206.
“very different animal”: Ibid., 207.
R, rather than: Simmons, Peckinpah, 137.
“this venerable member”: Fine, Bloody Sam, 207.
“dubious in its intention”: Simmons, Peckinpah, 137.
“immediately doubled the queues”: Trevelyan, What the Censor Saw, 217.
“I hoped people”: Fine, Bloody Sam, 208.
“Shall I discuss this”: Ibid., 210.
“There are two kinds”: “Playboy Interview: Sam Peckinpah,” 73.
“They were animals”: Gibson and McDonnell, Unfiltered, 82.
“Sometimes I’d have to”: Jon Stewart, “Fritz the Cat: America’s First X-rated Cartoon,” Ramparts, March 1972, 46.
Malcolm McDowell inquired if: McDowell to author; Oct. 4, 2011.
assistant director quit: McDowell to author, Oct. 4, 2011.
“Lolita could not”: Burgess, You’ve Had Your Time, 244.
“Napoleon Symphony”: Baxter, Stanley Kubrick 258.
I thought I was Stravinsky”: McDougal, Five Easy Decades, 137.
forty-five cuts/R rating: “Playboy Interview: Jack Nicholson,” Playboy, April 1972, 84.
“The orgasm is audible”: Ibid.
“unattractive”: Ibid.
Frankenheimer/Wyler reviews: Feiffer, Backing into Forward, 403.
“It was assaulted”: Ibid.
“But what do we learn”: Rosalyn Dexter, “Do Men Really Hate Women?,” New York
Times, July 2, 1971, 1.
“I’ve balled all”: Thompson, Jack Nicholson, 108.
“chicks dig it”: “Playboy Interview: Jack Nicholson,” 76.
“Men don’t like”: Feiffer to author, Dec. 7, 2010.
“going with Gloria Steinem”: Nichols to author, June 13, 2011.
“very tough faggots”: Mailer, Prisoner of Sex, 27.
“ego-tripping”: Manso, Mailer, 523.
sometime after: Ibid., 522.
That spring, Sir John Trevelyan: Mark Kermode, “The Devil Himself,” Video Watchdog, No. 35, 1996, 54.
“There’s nothing too subtle”: Hell on Earth documentary, 2002.
“masturbation fantasies”: Ibid.
“excesses never seen”: Phillips, Ken Russell, 106.
“When one reads”: Ibid.
More problematic than: Kermode, “The Devil Himself,” 55–56.
“Ashley cut”: Russell, Altered States, 198.
Sunday Bloody Sunday made it to premiere night: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“I make no personal”: Guy Flatley, “I Suppose Some People Will Be Shocked,” New York Times, Oct. 3, 1971, 13.
“Americans are taught”: Paul Jabara, “A Visit with Gore Vidal,” After Dark, July 1972, 52.
“Lance had this sense”: Hoffman to author.
would be “fun”: Pat Loud to author, June 10, 2010.
“the first ones”: Loud, Pat Loud, 90–91.
“This documentary will”: Pat Loud to author, June 10, 2010.
“no one ever looked”: Ruoff, An American Family, xv.
“That was flattering”: Loud, Pat Loud, 94.
“They were to live”: An American Family Revisited documentary, 1983.
“a nice, quaint”: Loud, Pat Loud, 96.
Alan Raymond, the cinematographer, was receiving: Ruoff, An American Family, 24.
“I was like a deer”: Pat Loud to author, June 10, 2010.
“I love it”: An American Family Revisited documentary, 1983.
De Niro, Al Pacino: Candy Darling documentary, 2009.
Loud Before Pat: Loud, Pat Loud, 98.
“thickening of the atmosphere”: Ibid., 121.
“Almost a million”: Ibid., 129.
“I was so influenced”: An American Family Revisited documentary, 1983.
Raymonds/“terribly avant-garde”: Ibid.
Edie Sedgwick materialized: Stein, Edie, 413–14.
Chapter Fourteen: 1972, Frenzy
Burgess consented to join: McDowell to author, Oct. 4, 2011.
“Kubrick went on”: Burgess, You’ve Had Your Time, 257.